At least once a year, my family and I go to the Philippines to meet up with our ninjas for at least 3 days.
We gather in a room where we talk about what’s currently working and what’s not. We plan, we strategise, and we make sure we’re having the perfect work:swim ratio. 🙂
Check out some behind-the-scenes action for making an awesome Tribal Council happen.
What awesome stuff do you do with your VAs?
I’ve got a little announcement about BIG news today.
And I’m super stoked to share it with you.
If you read this blog post to the end, I’ve got a feeling you’ll be super stoked, too.
After years of honing my craft, and making my very best stuff available to my seriously smart and devilishly good-looking crowd of Black Belt coaches …
… everything I know is now available in the most democratic form possible.
Can you believe The Matrix was released almost 18 years ago? Most modern high school students weren’t even born when it first came out. Does that make you feel old, too?
In case you haven’t watched it in the past decade, here’s a quick recap of one of my favorite scenes.
Our main character, Neo, is ready to start his training. While flipping through futuristic looking floppy-disks, Tank the operator says to him,
Hiring a virtual assistant is supposed to make our lives easier, not harder. It’s supposed to free us up from the routine tasks we’re not very good at so we can focus on what’s really important, right?
Too often, though, coaches hire a VA when they’re at their busiest. It makes perfect sense. The moments when we’re drowning in the routine minutia of our business is when we need help the most.
The problem is,
When we try to do everything in our business on our own, we end up overworked and exhausted. We spend so much time and energy on the mundane minutia that we rob ourselves of any opportunity to work on strategies that actually move our business forward.
When we’re constantly tired from doing the detail-oriented tasks we’re not naturally good at, the quality of our work tends to pay the price and we end up making stupid mistakes.
If you already have a virtual assistant, you probably have a decent understanding of what’s possible. The problem is, the possibility doesn’t always equal reality. Many of us get frustrated when our VA isn’t working out exactly as we hoped. I want to help you fix that right now.
But first, if you don’t currently have a virtual assistant, here’s what I know to be true:
You’re working really hard right now.
I’m surprised you even have time to read this blog.
I’m here at the Million Dollar Coach Intensive in London.
I have just been given a topic to talk about: “How to not work so hard in your coaching business”
I have this theory that working hard is a little bit overrated. There’s a thing going on right now that we should hustle.
You’ve probably seen a bunch of people or a bunch of gurus talking about how important hustle is. And frankly,
Compare the way you manage your time to where you sit in a car.
You might be in the driver’s seat — calling the shots, steering the car where you want to go, and accelerating and braking when you want to.
Or, you might be in the passenger’s seat — complaining about how you aren’t going where you’d like and passively waiting for change.
You might even be locked in the boot (trunk) — kicking and screaming,
Think about your average work week. What’s the hardest part of getting it all done?
Do you have trouble prioritizing or focusing? Are you getting distracted or overwhelmed?
Are you constantly putting out fires as they arise? Is tough balancing your work and home life?
Many of us think to ourselves, “If I just had one extra day to get stuff done, that would be fantastic.” Well, that’s what we’re going to focus on— giving ourselves an extra workday.
So many of the coaches I run into are stuck doing everything themselves, and I mean everything.
Coaching, selling, accounting, admin tasks — it all falls on their shoulders, both work they love and work they hate.
I don’t care who you are, nobody can do it all without the quality of their coaching, business, and personal life suffering dramatically.
There’s no secret way to do it all yourself and maintain a healthy coaching business and lifestyle.